International Symposium on Computer Architecture Influential Paper Award STEPHEN

......Each year at the International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA), the Influential Paper Award recognizes the paper from the ISCA proceedings 15 years earlier that has had the most impact on the field (in terms of research, development, products, or ideas) during the intervening years. Candidate papers for the award are selected by the current year’s ISCA Program Committee (PC). The final award selection was made by the current ISCA PC Chair (Steve Keckler), the ACM Special Interest Group on Computer Architecture (SIGARCH) Chair (David Wood), and the IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Computer Architecture (TCCA) Chair (David Kaeli). The award includes an honorarium for the authors and a certificate. The 2014 award was presented to “PipeRench: A Coprocessor for Streaming Multimedia Acceleration,” by Seth Copen Goldstein, Herman Schmit, Matthew Moe, Mihai Budiu, Srihari Cadambi, R. Reed Taylor, and Ronald Laufer. All of the authors were at Carnegie Mellon University at the time of publication. In 1999, field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) were largely considered to be suitable only for simple, lowperformance uses such as glue logic. There were three specific barriers to the use of FPGAs in wider ranges of applications: